We have 5 pilot sites that are participating in the Canadian PD Project! The pilot sites are Vancouver General Hospital, BC, Kelowna General Hospital, BC, Toronto East General Hospital, ON, Trillium Health Centre, ON, and Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, ON. Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, MB, is no longer participating in the project. The pilot sites are currently implementing PD in their facilities.  The sites have finished the collection of baseline measurement data, and have completed a first round of social network mapping.

Check out some photos from the June 2010 project meeting in Toronto!

sharing progress from trillium health centre

sharing progress at kelowna general hospital

hard at work - participants from toronto east general and trillium

group shot!

kelowna group doing their hand hygiene dance

getting into an improv -participants from kelowna general

vancouver general participants

noticing themes - participants from vancouver general and joseph brant memorial hospital

The Project:

Click here to read an article about PD and hospitals in the New York Times!

Here is a document that outlines the “what, so what, now what?” exercise: What-sowhat-nowwhat

Here are some helpful tools to use for network weaving: new-opportunity509 projectmanagementworksheet questions-to-help-deep-reflection-occur

Click here to read an article about PD at our project’s Toronto East General Hospital site!

Interested in using PD in your hospital to reduce infections? Follow this link to see how you can get started:A New Approach to Controlling Superbugs

Check out these documents for more information on Social Network Mapping and how maps can be used! buildingnetworks | how networkmaps are used

Here are some useful tools and guides about PD (handouts from community workshop): dad-training-materials discovering-pd-slides-deck Some Principles to Consider Min Specs Community

Here is a helpful guide for those who want to learn about the basics of PD: basic-steps-of-pd-guide-2009

Check out this article about PD at our project’s very own Trillium site!: http://www.hiroc.com/AxiomNews/2010/January/January29.html

Follow this link to a complexity in healthcare resource  called Edgeware: http://www.plexusinstitute.org/edgeware/archive/think/index.html

Follow this link to view a slideshow from the Toronto Phase 2 PD meeting January 21st and 22nd 2010: http://picasaweb.google.com/keithmccandless/TorontoPDMeeting?authkey=Gv1sRgCOuitL7pjNadAw# <http://picasaweb.google.com/keithmccandless/TorontoPDMeeting?authkey=Gv1sRgCOuitL7pjNadAw>

Here is another set of pictures from the UHN project’s Toronto meeting: http://picasaweb.google.com/shawnhoke/Toronto#slideshow/5430011016580684242

Follow this link to watch a fantastic video about using music to help kids growing up in the slums of Venezuela: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4011959n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

Follow this link to take a look at a PD slideshow from Toronto East General! http://prezi.com/z1wu27dixq5t

Click here for links to videos from the kick-off!: kickoff-video-links

Check out this fantastic journal article where PD was used to improve hand hygiene and lower infection rates in a hospital in Brazil: pd_hh_iche_brazil

Here is some helpful information about several PD tools: min-specs-cpsi-pd-project

Click here to see a slide presentation that outlines the basic concepts of PD

Click here to check out an article on the PD movement in the Boston Globe!

Here is an article about the use of PD in health care: research-in-action-article-pd

Click here to listen to Michael Gardam’s presentation and view the slides from  the June 29th webinar session on the Canadian PD Project

Click here to listen to Michael Gardam’s presentation and view the slides from  the July 8th webinar session on the Canadian PD Project

Click here to download the PowerPoint slides from the July 8th webinar

Click here to listen to Michael Gardam’s Presentation from the July 22nd webinar

For more information on PD, see the following links:
www.plexusinstitute.org
www.positivedeviance.org
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/41/sternin.html

Interested in using PD in your hospital to reduce infections? Wave 2 of this webinar series is now open for registration. Follow this link to see how you can get started:A New Approach to Controlling Superbugs

There is an upcoming conference on PD and healthcare happening in the USA this September. Follow this link for details! www.plexusinstitute.org/pdhealth

The Canadian PD Project hospital sites have finished the first round of social network mapping, and they continue to implement PD in their facilities. All of the sites are gearing up and getting excited for the next project face-to-face meeting in Toronto in June, 2010.

There will be a free teleclass held on August 12th, 2010 titled “Positive Deviance: Unleashing Secret Change Agents in Your Hospital to Prevent MRSA Infection”, presented by Dr. Jon Lloyd. Follow this link for more details: http://webbertraining.com/schedulep1.php?command=viewClass&ID=988

We have 5 pilot sites participating in the Canadian PD Project! The pilot sites are Vancouver General Hospital, BC, Kelowna General Hospital, BC, Toronto East General Hospital, ON, Trillium Health Centre, ON, and Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, ON. Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, MB, is no longer participating in the project. The pilot sites are currently implementing PD in their facilities, and are getting started on Social Network Mapping.